Nico Perrino on Individual Rights and Free Expression

Nico Perrino is FIRE's Executive Vice President and the creator and host of FIRE’s So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast. He is also the codirector of the 2020 documentary Mighty Ira, which is about the life and career of former ACLU executive director Ira Glasser.

Today, he talks to us about FIRE’s name change and mission expansion. What changed and why? What is going on with civil liberties today? He responds to some criticisms of free speech, we explore social media and censorship. We also talk about his optimism for the future.

Don't miss Kevin Lavery's Great Antidote Extra on this episode.




Want to explore more?
Nadine Strossen on Hate Speech, a Great Antidote podcast.
Arnold Kling, Liberalism and Its Enemies, at Econlib.
The OLL Freedom of Speech Collection.